Johann G. Seume Quotes

I have never been motivated by money in my life. You can't make choices based on what the financial return might be.

Money isn't a major motivating force in my life. Nor is my profession. There are other things that I care more about than being an actor.

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

You don't do everything in life in order to make money.

If I die tomorrow, I've accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.

I think 'having it all' is a phrase I don't particularly like. You need to have what you want. 'All' seems to me to be an imposed list, an imposed definition by society of what 'all' is supposed to be.

Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

It took the producers a while to realize I wanted a full-bodied life. I wanted to get out before I felt I'd sacrificed so much to get somewhere that I couldn't afford to leave.

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

I was a little different. I still say I'm a little different, because success to me is not having the most money, or having the biggest car or the biggest house.

People think they have to be ambitious. But at a certain age, all you want is to be around nice, decent people.

The dignity we seek in dying must be found in the dignity with which we have lived our lives.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

People have different concepts of the good life, and any attempt to impose one favored view will be contentious.

Not to say that you shouldn't strive for success, but don't forget why you're doing it. It's not just for adoration.

I don't live out my career, I live my life.